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If you have not tried growing your home based business yet through Squidoo, you don’t know what you are missing. Squidoo.com is one of the newer social networking sites modeled after MySpace and Facebook but unlike those two it encourages the marketing of products and services. This is a place that actually wants you to advertise your website.

Squidoo is a treasure trove of articles, covering every single subject that you can think of. Squidoo users can easily look for whatever they want because all the information is classified according to their categories. The categories include; books, travel, music, business, health and medicine, tv and movies, shopping and many more. Say you are wanting to plan a road trip for example. Squidoo has an article on how to do that which includes links to possible destinations, attractions and places to stay. See how easy it can be to generate possible leads for your company.

The key to using Squidoo is to create a lens which will be used by Squidoo followers to be directed to your product or service. Begin by setting up a free account. Have a look at some other lenses on Squidoo before you put your own lens on there. When you are ready to set up your own lens, click on the Make A Lens box and begin. When you begin, you will answer what your plans for your lens are. Your next task is to paste the URL of your own site and choose a category for your lens. Complete your profile and try to add key search words so it can be found.

Squidoo calls the pages lenses because each is to focus on something that is important to the creator. The traffic to the site could possibly be 500,000 per day, and each of these visitors represents a potential customer. You are asked to fill out the first module which is an introduction to you and your subject, once you start your lens. You can then open a guestbook or set up a section for links on other sites on the subject. Squidoo even gives you a money making option where you can recommend other products that may tie in with yours and for every purchase that is made you can pick up a commission. All that is left to do is click on the publish button and watch your Squidoo lens do your work.

Carin Davis is the editor and webmaster of http://www.CarinDavis.net. A site dedicated to the development and training for Network Marketers and Home Business Owners.